djing with all 4 sample decks
I’ve been tinkering with this lately, and come up with some ‘interesting’ results, and found it more flexible than ableton - once i got used to the layout.
only problem i’ve found is the extra prep work, and some loss to traktors flexibility shrug
planning on getting a mix uploaded at some point, and some kind of blog post/detailed thread in a couple of weeks.
Often thought about giving this a go too. The prep work would be huge. You would need to make loops of everything you wanted to use before hand. Then there is trying to make a fluid mapping.
Keep us posted with your progress though.
imo 3 sample decks + 1 full deck
the full deck comes in handy when creating new loops straight into the sample decks
I’ve thought about it as well. Interested to see your results brad.
Ive been thinking of this to. In fact i ran a whole mix in my head whilst out running the other day.
Thinking of breaking down a number of tunes into loops and making a mini mix from just the loops.
Probably wont do it cus im lazy but …
ditto
Personally I’ve never understood why people would want to DJ with ableton and clips but this seems to have a little more potential. Seems like the kind of thing you would do just for the sake of doing though.
Same…
BUT!
I have messed about gooft…playing with the samples provided and had a decent 30min or so session of playing tech…with a beat looped in the Track Deck A and another track looped in the deck B. Then dropping samples (one hits and loops) in over the top while transferring to and from A and B.
Adding a Delay FXed scratch over it too.
I can see this working out well…but as you all have said…PREP!
Really nice idea brad! go for it!
I will try something with sample decks C/D and a iPad too…
I’m thinking of build something like the korg kaoss pad FXs, “sintesizers”, white noises, flanger/phaser combinations.
It really fits better with psytrance if we incorporate these FX in other decks then use it massivelly over the tracks (that are alredy produced with lots of FX).
I don’t see myself using instant gratification map with psytrance 
I wish I had one KP3 to play for some weeks 
mmmm…I dunno…the kp3 is not THAT hot.
I mean…i have not used mine all that much and am sure its awesome tool the way Beardy uses etc, but i would rather use TSP’s when playing. Much more fun, to me anyway.
Thought i found a quick way round prep… sample packs. Loops are there, BUT have to sort messed up grids/bpm reads 
Got a fairly fluid vci map for using it, and a keyboard map for creating/fine tuning samples from traktor library. Enjoying the spontaneous jamming, but without any known tunes in there, it sounds a bit self indulgent
Very interseted in your result.
shoot us one of your vids when done
for anyone still intrigued, and that hasn’t seen it yet, i’ve uploaded a mix on soundcloud
http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40251 < thread
if there’s enough interest i’ll post up the samples used, and a breakdown of what was done
Thanks for the article on the blog, I found it interesting and very inspirational. Hope you’ll make a video to illustrate it. Thumps up.
This.
I might have to try this in Ableton soon. :U
I guess I missed this when it first got posted.
I’m not saying anyone is wrong, as there are a lot of ways to do things.
But what could possibly make doing something like this in Traktor better/easier/etc. than doing it in Ableton Live? I mean…that’s what Ableton was made for.
All the loops in the article are downloadable again. Kind of neglected Soundcloud as haven’t had much to upload recently…
Working on some new stuff though
+1 if you’re only a DJ.
When you got your own productions, hence samples with parts of the track (lead, bass, drums etc), it makes much more sense.
I still can’t figure out what the benefit of Traktor’s way of doing it is. Ableton is simpler, more powerful, and less formulaic.